A core group of grassroots leaders throughout Alabama has written to Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to thank him for fighting so hard against amnesty. “We are writing to express our gratitude for your steadfast commitment
President Barack Obama said the power of conservative opposition, including in the media, is blocking his agenda in an interview with New York Times columnist Tom Friedman late last week. “What you’ve seen with our politics, partly because of gerrymandering,
Several victims of crimes committed by illegal aliens criticized Speaker John Boehner’s absence at an event on the southern U.S. border in McAllen, Texas Saturday, saying the Ohio Republican and champion of immigration reform should witness the violence spilling over
Ebola could break into the United States through the unsecured U.S. border with Mexico, experts say. “While we’ve seen no signs that Ebola virus has spread to our borders, it is very concerning,” Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX) told Breitbart News.
In the wake of the June 24 primary runoff election in Mississippi, state Sen. Chris McDaniel’s staff found the numbers in Lafayette County – home of the cabin which incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran has sometimes listed as his primary address
A new white paper from Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund puts a target on GOP operative Henry Barbour for his role in incendiary racial appeals in the Mississippi GOP Senate primary. “Henry Barbour was the field general in an unprecedented
A Mississippi charged in connection with the photographing of the wife of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) cut a non-adjudication plea deal with prosecutors on Wednesday, meaning that he’ll face no jail time and get five years probation after which time
Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) told Breitbart News in a lengthy phone interview on Tuesday that the new media are the backbone of the conservative anti-amnesty movement, and that last week’s unification of the GOP against
Conservative House members and movement leaders are thanking the grassroots activists nationwide for their role in helping win the major immigration battle last week in the House that flayed the Democrats on the hotly contested issue for the first time
“She was pretty unhinged,” Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) told Breitbart News about House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in his first print interview since the California Democrat confronted the Republican lawmaker in a startling altercation on the House floor last week.
Breitbart News has obtained the first digital copy of State Sen. Chris McDaniel’s official challenge of Mississippi’s election results, filled with hundreds of pages of signed affidavits naming people alleged to have ineligibly voted in the June 24 GOP primary
Six weeks after the primary runoff election, Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel is launching his formal legal challenge of the election results, saying the evidence is so conclusive that he will be calling for courts to recognize him as the
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) has pushed legislation that his son has lobbied for as a paid lobbyist, Breitbart News has learned. Back in 2002, David Roberts–Sen. Roberts’ son–lobbied for Kansas State University at the lobbying firm Van Scoyoc Associates, Inc.,
The House of Representatives voted Friday evening to pass a bill that blocks President Barack Obama from continuing or expanding executive amnesty via the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program or programs like it. The bill passed 216 to
Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) praised House Republicans late Friday evening for standing strong on immigration and warned Democrats in Congress that they will be held accountable for supporting amnesty for illegal aliens. “I applaud the
Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) isn’t saying either way whether he’s backing the new House immigration bill, but a hill source tells Breitbart News that he’s “very encouraged” by what’s happened thus far on Friday. “Senator
Democratic Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI), the Democrat U.S. Senate nominee in Michigan, told attendees of a town hall event in Detroit’s Mexicantown neighborhood that immigration reform was not about enforcing America’s laws. “Immigration reform is not about enforcement,” Peters said
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) began speaking on the U.S. Senate floor about the border crisis in the wake of chaos on the House side of Capitol Hill, urging lawmakers to not support any legislation that doesn’t get at the root
If the House makes any changes whatsoever to the immigration bill that blew up and died before Speaker John Boehner tried to bring it back to life–and then votes on those changes on Thursday evening or on Friday–it would be
In response to reports that Speaker John Boehner had killed his immigration bill due to lack of support among House Republicans, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has called on Boehner to come back to resuscitate the bill–or at least pass something.
Polling data compiled by Tea Party Patriots and provided exclusively to Breitbart News shows that a majority of Republican voters think Republicans standing strong on immigration is more important than repealing Obamacare, getting to the bottom of the Benghazi or
Speaker John Boehner’s top immigration aide was at the center of a heated dispute between the speaker and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) at a closed-door conference meeting Tuesday, according to several people who witnessed the altercation. Gohmert, speaking to the
UPDATE II: Breitbart News has learned that there may be additional votes after a 3pm conference meeting. Developing… *** UPDATE: Believing they would not have the votes to pass their own bill, House leadership has canceled the vote on Boehner’s border
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol has advised House Republicans on Thursday morning that should vote against House Speaker John Boehner’s border crisis bill. “The House Republican leadership is having trouble getting 218 votes for its immigration bill,” Kristol wrote Thursday
The language of the legislation that House GOP leadership will offer a vote on to win over conservatives on a border crisis bill contains significant differences from language Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced a couple
